Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Why does dinner have to be so complicated sometimes. There are some days that I really don't feel like standing over the stove making dinner. And now that Summer is actually making it's presence here in Utah, I like to move away from the kitchen & use my grill-keeping all the heat outside instead of in.

On this one particular night, I didn't want to make pasta. I had a loaf of french bread, waiting to be eaten, along with leftover pepporoni. Wam, Bam, thank you Mam, dinner is served.

Quite easy too. I used my standard Tomatoe Sauce {kicked up with spices}, pepporoni, cheese, and some green onion tops. I heated up the grill on high, and then turned it down to low so the bread wouldn't char, and would allow the cheese to melt.

15-20 minutes. I think that's all it took to whip up this dish. And it was probally devoured in that same amount of time :)

One of these days, I'll have some shredded chicken & make a BBQ pizza; which will go perfect with all the green onions I have in my garden :)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You might say that you have the best recipe, but this is my blog; therefore, mine is the best!

There are so many different kinds of Chocolate Chip cookies {from chewy to firm}, but these cookies are puffy, soft, chewy & yummy.

This recipe is one that I've grown up with allmylife; I've never known my Mom to make any other. And for a long time, I couldn't get my cookies to come out like hers; I kept screwing up the recipe somehow. But now, with the little wisdom that I know in the kitchen, I am able to make these cookies & have them turn out just the way I had them growing up.

Everytime my Mom would make cookies, you could find my siblings & I taking spoons out of the drawer & swiping the dough. I do it now too, but I'm an Adult, therefore I can :)

But I think the best way to eat these cookies is with a cold glass of milk; breaking the cookies in half & dunking every bite.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Oh my goodness. It's been awhile since I've posted. I guess that'll happen when you go on vacation for 2 weeks :)

For this week, I wanted to add a couple of pictures from our adventure down to Louisiana. There were so many to choose from, that's how great of a time we had.

I live in Utah. We have mountains. It was so breathtaking to see these views of open skys as we drove through Texas.

I love my continuous setting on my camera so I can capture facial expressions like this.

I tried alot of new things while down in Louisiana. One of them being Crawfish. These suckers were delicious!

On a Swamp Tour

This kid missed half of New Orleans

At the Zoo

Driving for 13-14 hours a day {yes we drove....it took us 2 days}can get kinda boring. So I took out my camera and tried to be creative. I took pictures of my pop can, sunglasses, and myself through the mirrors.

Taken at my Son's B-day party; it was sort of a quick snap, and I'm glad that I took it :)